Our International Partners

UB is committed to seeking out opportunities for academic
exchange and scholarly collaboration across national and cultural
borders. We have cultivated relationships with distinguished
educational institutions throughout the world,
cooperating with international partners on student exchanges,
joint research projects and the delivery of degree programs
overseas. These connections strengthen teaching, learning and
research at both UB and collaborating institutions.

Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), Singapore

The University at Buffalo, in cooperation with the Singapore
Institute of Management (SIM), offers
students in Singapore the opportunity to earn a Bachelor's
Degree in several areas of study, including Management.

Exchanges with all three partners have
continued for more than 30 years, with UB and Beijing researchers
collaborating in disciplines including engineering, language
learning, the arts and health sciences. UB students have also
studied abroad and completed medical school rotations in
Beijing.

In 2010, Capital Normal University and
UB celebrated a new milestone: The opening of a new Confucius
Institute at UB that seeks to facilitate the teaching of
Chinese language and culture at local schools in Western New
York.

Amrita University, India

Amrita
University, UB’s partner in south India since 2006, is a
leading private research university enrolling some 15,000 students
on five campuses in three Indian states.

Research collaborations between Amrita
and UB faculty in engineering, computer science, the health
sciences and social work are ongoing, with a new joint research
center at Amrita serving as the locus of collaborations of social
work faculty and students from both institutions.

Amrita and UB have also partnered on a
dual-degree program in Management
of Information Technology Services on Amrita’s Bangalore
campus, taught by faculty from both institutions. A second
UB-Amrita dual master’s program—in embedded
systems—is in development.

The Jagiellonian University, Poland

Founded in 1346, the Jagiellonian University
is Poland’s oldest and most distinguished university.
UB’s affiliation with the Jagiellonian began in the late
1980s, during the last years of the Soviet Bloc.

As Poland later emerged as a democratic,
free-market society, UB played an important role in the
Jagiellonian University’s institutional development.
Extensive cooperation and faculty and student exchange have
occurred across many faculties at each institution.

Relations with the Jagiellonian have
strengthened Polish
Studies at UB and the university’s ties to Western New
York’s large Polish community.

UB and Konan have also partnered on
innovative programs that prepare Japanese students to become
globally competent managers.

Annually since 2003, 30-40 Konan
undergraduates have spent a year at UB studying the English
language, business and economics. Many of these students also have
completed UB’s six-week summer program on Asian Business at
the Singapore Institute of Management.

Brock University, Canada

While their formal affiliation dates
from 2007, Brock University and
UB, roughly equidistant from the nearby U.S.-Canada border, have
cooperated in many domains since Brock’s founding in
1964.

Over the years, many Brock faculty
earned doctorate degrees at UB, and UB faculty have served as
consultants in the development of programs and curricula at
Brock.

The UB Regional
Institute partners with Brock’s Niagara Observatory in
data collection and policy studies relating to the binational
Niagara region. Research collaboration is expanding in areas from
digital humanities to applied health sciences.

The universities have long collaborated
in the area of Canadian
studies and now offer a joint master’s program in
Canadian-American studies.

Pavani Ram, an assistant professor of social and preventive medicine, is looking for simple solutions to pressing public health problems: namely, how to prevent the spread of disease from unsanitary conditions.

In a region of the world where tsunamis and monsoons threaten millions of lives, the UB/Amrita Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute (UBARI) initiates and supports research on topics including trauma, extreme events and disaster management.

The Colombian city of Pasto, population 400,000, and several small villages sit at the foot of Galeras Volcano. Galeras is a threat, and UB’s Center for GeoHazards Studies is working to improve the community's disaster preparedness.

Following a destructive earthquake in Haiti, MCEER, UB’s Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, is partnering with a Haitian university to train engineers and architects to design buildings that can better withstand earthquakes.

Two Canadians become the first international students to enroll
at UB, one year after its founding.

6/19/14

First international faculty member, a Canadian, is
appointed.

6/19/14

First enrollment of students from Asia (from Japan and
India).

6/19/14

Melodia E. Jones Chair in French is established to bring leading
scholars and writers from France to teach French language and
literature. Incumbents have included André Maurois, Michel
Butor, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida.

6/19/14

UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences launches 10-year
USAID project to assist development of the medical school at the
National University of Asunción, Paraguay.

6/19/14

Founding of UB's English Language Institute (ELI), one of the
leading institutes of its kind in the world.

6/19/14

UB becomes the first U.S. university following normalization of
relations to establish an institutional affiliation with a
university in China.

6/19/14

Under contract with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the
Chinese government, UB conducts the first accredited U.S. MBA
program in China at the National Center for Industrial Management
Training in Dalian.

6/19/14

Landmark affiliations are established with the Jagiellonian
University in Krakow, Poland and Riga Technical University in
Latvia; the latter leads to the founding of the Riga Business
School, the first U.S. management training school in the
Baltics.

6/19/14

Partnership with Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) is
established with launch of School of Management’s Executive
MBA program at SIM.

6/19/14

UB partners with Konan University on new Economics and Business
Administration (EBA) Degree Program, which sends 40 Japanese
undergraduates to UB annually for academic study.

6/19/14

UB establishes a dual degree program in civil engineering with
Istanbul Technical University as part of a SUNY-wide agreement with
Turkish universities.

6/19/14

UB is ranked 10th among U.S institutions enrolling the largest
number of international students.

6/19/14

UB hosted a series of events and exhibits related to Tibet
during a three-day visit to UB by His Holiness the 14th Dalai
Lama, spiritual leader of the Tibetan people.